Faro Furnished Hotel Addis Ababa

... Christian, unlike anywhere else in the world, there is a different time and calendar measurement – it has just turned 2002 in Ethiopia on the 11th September (their New Year) and if you want to meet somebody for lunch you will arrange to rendez-vous at around 06:00 (the day starting at 6am with the first hour……etc. etc…. very different, and very interesting. We loved it and thank the Ethiopians for their welcoming and sharing nature.

What will the vast deserts of Sudan bring?

... bon nous traversons la plaine surchauffée sans encombre.

Puis la route commence son ascension vers la montagne d'Harar, la route sinueuse est jonchée de cadavres de pick ups et autres Isuzu à la conduite si aventurière qui leur vaut le surnom d'Al Qaida. Nous progressons à travers les champs de bananiers et d'eucalyptus, les huttes au toit de chaume, les hommes, femmes, enfants, troupeaux qui marchent inlassablement d'un village à l'autre, parfois lourdement ...

... bricks and
re-opening the technical schools inorder to break the stigma attached
with an orphanage and better integrate the group into the community.
It was really encouraging to see such life and hope there!
Saktophe’s Highlights

• Wondo Genet Orphanage!
  
• Delicious Tibs and Injera…..with
  some mit-mita on the side
  
• Remembering the days of dial-up.
  Thank you Canada for High-Speed
  

... a few hours later, as she exited Ethiopia just as she'd entered - in the wee hours of the morning. On my own for the next day in Addis, I spent the day doing a mix of relaxing, trying to use the internet (unsuccessfully), and attempting to purchase and pack (more difficult than you'd think) some Ethiopian art. Hence, I learned Ethiopia Lesson #6: There is No Bubble Wrap in Ethiopia. I was sad to leave Ethiopia - probably moreso than any of the other countries I'd ...

... for our trip to the north**n "historical circuit", we decided to put off trying to plan a trip to the South until the next morning and went to Fasika for dinn** - a great restaurant with traditional Ethiopian food and dance. We saw a couple of folks from our hotel th**e - the aforementioned Kenyan woman and a woman from the British Museum who was in Addis to train the Ethiopians and Kenyans with respect to their own national museums. Of course on the next day, the foiling ...

Three of us went on a sightseeing trip around Addis. It was a bright sunny warm day as usual. We started at the National Museum which had been a residence of the late Emperor Haile Selassie. We saw his bedroom and bathroom and the Empress' quarters. The palace is now part of the University. The Museum is well worth seeing with several displays of life in the various regions of ...

... peu mélangé dans ma tête. Une dernière anecdote dans la série de la BD que l'on fera un jour sur les absurdités de la vie des ONGs: hier une personne se pointe dans le bureau qui est divisé entre équipe d'urgence et développement. On était en plein rush et il nous dit faire une thèse sur la réduction de la pauvreté. Alors, tous, d'une même voix, on lui indique le couloir et on lui dit : « Non, désolé, la réduction de la pauvreté, c'est la prochaine porte à gauche. »

... airport and you want to go out to the city? But why? How can you do that - you have a plane to catch in 5 hours! I swear it took several minuted to explain what we want to do. The kind man, who really wanted to help us, couldn't understand at the beginning what we want to do. It didn't make sense to him. The guy went to the passport control, and talked to the lady who check the foreign passports while entering Ethiopia. It took a little while until ...

... evidences of Ethiobamamania are everywhere.  Within the past five months, "Obama Café"s have sprung up all over the country.  The largest and most prominent of these is in Bahirdar, where you can eat the best steak-and-cheese sandwich in Ethiopia under multiple images of the man himself, smiling endearingly down on you from the walls.  Unsurprisingly, the most extravagant display of Obama exuberance can be found in the capital city of Addis Ababa ...

... heard all the circumstances we knew would eventually push her to go: a lack of meaningful work at her assigned office, active efforts by her supervisor to prevent her from working elsewhere, haunting first-hand experiences with the devastations of poverty and disease in a developing nation,unresponsiveness on the part of the Peace Corps office, feelings of helplessness, isolation, and utter frustration. We sympathized, being faced with similar situations ourselves. But we ...